MediaWest*Con 28 -- Day 4

[the_other_sandy]

BF and I made one last pass through the dealer room this morning, turned in our ballots for the songvid competition, and hit the road. My least favorite part of MediaWest is when it ends.

This was a really slow year for the con. There were way fewer door decorations, room dealers, and songvids than in previous years. There seemed to be just fewer people in general. It was kind of disappointing, but even a slow year at MediaWest is more fun than I have just about anywhere else.

In summary:

• I attended 12 panels, the gen and slash competition vids, the movie trailer block in the film room, and 1 room party


• I met jensenrick for the first time (the poor guy had no idea that I do most of my talking on LJ; I'm actually very quiet in RL), and got to talk to wraithfodder, Holy Mother Grammatica, and lots of other fans


• I bought 16 zines in 3 fandoms (Stargate Atlantis, Stargate SG-1, and Supernatural) along with 1 crossover, 2 buttons I had made ("Its uncredible how well at grammer I am" and one of my LJ Drama icon, which I wore to all the LJ panels I went to), 1 Stargate Atlantis tie-in novel, 2 keychains (both of Jensen and Jared), the season 2 Supernatural base trading card set, 2 luggage tags (1 Jensen and Jared and 1 Col. Sheppard from Stargate Atlantis), 4 magnets (3 Jensen and Jared and 1 Jared), and 5 photo charms for my Italian charm bracelet (Sheppard from SGA, the Petrelli brothers from Heroes, the Winchester brothers from Supernatural, the Man from UNCLE logo, and the Due South logo)


• I discovered 2 artists I like very much: Nigel Sade, and Mimi-Na, who draws the most adorable Doctor Who caricatures ever


• I had ridiculous amounts of fun

Counting down the days until next year.

Comments

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

I did it once, and while it saves you time in the authograph line, I'm at hte point now I'd rather get a photo (shorter line) than autograph. AUctioning gold tickets? gads, I saw them auctioning "VIP" tickets for $500+ - you get 'behind the scenes'. Yeah, that's scalping, no matter how you look at it.

GOing to MWC is also a matter of interacting with other fans, talking creative pursuits, etc., and not playing trivia contests or watching actors talk, which yes, is fun, but Creations are so one-tract if you don't want to see that actor, there's nothing else to do.

[the-other-sandy.livejournal.com]

My first Creation con was a Stargate con in Chicago the year before last. Joe Flanigan was scheduled to be there, but he had to cancel. I wasn't interested in most of the other actors or in doing the autograph/photo op thing, and the dealer room consisted of 4 tables of licensed Creation merchandise in the back of the same ballroom where the actors were speaking. I literally had nothing to do for hours on end. That's never happened to me at a con before, especially not one that expensive (and I paid the cheapy price). I spent most of the con hanging out in the lobby with people I knew from MediaWest.

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

ONly 4 tables? Guess I won't complain about the only 6 tables at the Creation I went to.